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Sonomind will showcase its non-invasive low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation platform designed for treatment-resistant depression (as a first indication). The demonstration will present the treatment workflow, from brain imaging to patient-specific acoustic lens design and ultrasound therapy delivery. Visitors will discover how Sonomind combines precision targeting, ease of use, and patient comfort through an innovative medical device developed to open new possibilities in psychiatric and neurology care.
Transcript
00:00Please welcome Jeremy Berkhoff and Ilona Cazzo from Sonomide.
00:09Give me more energy, this is the last one, so help me to provide love with Jona and Jeremy.
00:20What do you feel like?
00:28Good afternoon everybody, this is Thomas, everybody see Thomas.
00:37Thomas is not doing well, right Dr. Cazzo?
00:41No he's not, Thomas is really sad, Thomas doesn't eat, doesn't talk to his relatives and he's slowly isolating.
00:50He takes medications for that, it's been years and many of them, but nothing seems to work.
00:58According to you guys, what is Thomas suffering from?
01:03So now you take your phones, you scan your, the QR code and you try to vote.
01:13We're waiting for the participants to increment, I want at least 20 participants.
01:21Yeah, great, there we go, we have it.
01:24Great, great, come on.
01:31Okay, one more second, oh 33.
01:37So, let's go.
01:42Well, are there results coming up?
01:44Yeah, you're 100% right.
01:46Thomas is suffering from treatment resistant depression.
01:53Yes, the figures are coming up again, so treatment resistant depression.
01:57I think we can go to the next slide for that.
02:01Okay, you're right.
02:08Today, people suffering from treatment resistant depression or TRD are more than 100 million people in the world.
02:20This represents around $1,000 billion spent in treatments worldwide in 2020.
02:30Today, people like Thomas, and they represent 30% of these patients, they have only two options.
02:39They are pretty invasive and sometimes they're painful.
02:43It can be electroshock or it can be RTMS or DBS, which is highly invasive, and surgical solutions.
02:53So, you understood it's for this more than 1 million Thomas that Sonomind exists.
03:00So, Sonomind is a medical device that uses ultrasound to treat depression.
03:07The same ultrasound that are used to image a baby before it's born, we use it to heal the brain.
03:14We send the ultrasound deep inside the brain at the location that are affected by the diseases.
03:22It's non-invasive, it's painless, and it's extremely precise.
03:30How do we do that?
03:32So, we build for Thomas a custom lens and a custom mask that is deduced from the MRI of Thomas'
03:42head.
03:43We printed in 3D the two elements.
03:48This lens that Dr. Cazzo is showing you is the result of 25 years of research at Institute of Physics
03:56for Medicine in Paris.
03:57It will guide the ultrasound waves from the system to inside Thomas' brain by guiding the waves through the bones
04:08of Thomas
04:09and localizing them, as you can see, exactly at the location where Thomas needs it.
04:16So, it's a millimeter precision.
04:20And so, according to you, what is the mechanism of ultrasound that are involved in this treatment?
04:41Second question.
04:43Scan again.
04:44You're on?
04:45You're on.
04:46Let's go.
04:49Is it an electric shock inside the brain?
04:53Is it a neuronal massage?
04:57Is it a thermal effect?
05:00Or is it what we call cavitation?
05:02So, it's a bubble that we create remotely to shake the tissues.
05:11Okay, this one is more difficult.
05:25You're good.
05:26It's a neuronal massage.
05:28So, ultrasound, we do a massage of the neurons at the location that we focus.
05:33And neurons that have a massage, like humans, they communicate better between them.
05:39And when the neurons communicate better between them, Thomas feels better.
05:48So, I'm switching back.
06:02So, the first results of our first case study that happened in Paris at St. Anne Hospital has shown spectacular
06:12results.
06:12In only five-day treatments from patients who were suffering from treatment-resistant depression for years.
06:20They have shown results in only five days.
06:23And the only second effect that we could measure was a bit of tiredness.
06:28So, no serious second effects that was observed on the patients.
06:32So, five days of treatment, one hour of ultrasound per day, five days of treatment.
06:37And we proved that we can heal depression.
06:41This is only 15 patients.
06:4315 patients is a promise, it's not a result.
06:45So, we just raised 20 million euros this month to run international clinical trials, double-blinded against placebo, to demonstrate
06:57our efficacy.
06:57And we hope to be in the market by 2029.
07:02And we will not stop with depression.
07:04We can change the location where we send ultrasound and we can heal other diseases.
07:11So, depending on the area, we can treat obsessive constipative disorder.
07:21We can treat addictions.
07:24We can treat anxiety.
07:25We can treat chronic pain.
07:28We can treat Parkinson's.
07:31So, the possibilities are huge.
07:34We didn't build a treatment for depression.
07:37We built a platform to heal the brain.
07:41We know that one day, Thomas in here will feel better.
07:46And tomorrow, all the Thomases in the world.
07:51And that's exactly what our mission at Sonoma.
07:54So, we wait for you in 2029 for our system to be on the market.
08:03Thank you very much.
08:14Questions?
08:15Ladies and gentlemen?
08:20No.
08:21I saw a cell phone like this.
08:23I thought it was a question, but no question.
08:26Okay.
08:27It's just a picture.
08:28It's not a question.
08:28Okay.
08:29There's a difference.
08:31No questions.
08:32Quite clear.
08:34Thank you so, so much.
08:36Ilona.
08:37And Jeremy.
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